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Question: Did anyone watch the HBO movie "Behind the Candelabra" over the weekend?
HBO Movie Premier | 05-28-2013 | Red Badger

Posted on 05/28/2013 9:56:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Alex Murphy

It was brought out in the movie that Liberace sued some media of the time for reporting that he was a homosexual.....AND WON.........


41 posted on 05/28/2013 10:33:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Beowulf9
Liberace, who hid his homosexuality

Um . . . he didn't do a very good job.

42 posted on 05/28/2013 10:34:54 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: massgopguy

What did he play? Catwoman?............


43 posted on 05/28/2013 10:35:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Sears Craftsman..............


44 posted on 05/28/2013 10:36:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: ruesrose
At least he had enough class to not flaunt his homosexuality.

Again, um . . .

45 posted on 05/28/2013 10:36:24 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: apillar

The truth hurts. The gay lifestyle just isn’t that flattering. Didn’t watch. My time is too valuable.


46 posted on 05/28/2013 10:37:31 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (DONATE!!!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I couldn’t believe how they made up Rob Lowe to look like Michael Jackson.

That's a joke, right?

47 posted on 05/28/2013 10:37:48 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: apillar
...the movie essentially portrayed Liberace as a sexual predator that seduced teen boys with drugs, alcohol and gifts.

Well, at least the movie seems to be an actual portrayal of the 'gay' lifestyle...

48 posted on 05/28/2013 10:39:14 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Red Badger

Uhhhhhhhh. what?


49 posted on 05/28/2013 10:39:30 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Red Badger

No need to watch H’wood try to justify homosexual behavior.

HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.


50 posted on 05/28/2013 10:41:33 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: MeganC

This is the new aMeriKa. I bet Bathhouse Barry enjoyed it.


51 posted on 05/28/2013 10:43:07 AM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 can we make it until 2016?)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
And just to have another Game of Thrones reference here.

I thought that was some kind of computerized video game.

52 posted on 05/28/2013 10:44:46 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Red Badger

53 posted on 05/28/2013 10:45:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Alex Murphy

People pretty much knew about Rock Hudson also, they just didn’t talk about things like that much.

Without the media driving daily conversation and erasing the line between entertainment celebrities, gossip, and news and world events, people back then could just watch Liberace and Hudson without being much interested in the behind the curtain issues.

Since news was about news back then, men just never sat around talking about homosexual actors, pop-stars, Hollywood Divas, and all the other celebrity stuff today that even the grown men are exposed to.

It used to be that if you wanted to be saturated with all the tripe, women had to seek it out with specialized magazines, not the evening news and newspapers and Time and US News and World report.


54 posted on 05/28/2013 10:58:36 AM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: Red Badger

If the inane public saw the film , as we did as well as the Cannes film, Blue about lesbians,saw the sexual positions, the filth, the lingo, the Adult Book Stores, the lies, the social lying, one would understand perhaps why Biblically, all sex sin has a greater impact on humanity that many other sins: adultery, fornication, lusts, homosexuality. But PC baloney will rule the day, and liberals, mostly pagans, will talk about the love. Yikes.


55 posted on 05/28/2013 11:04:21 AM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: JimRed
"I thought that was some kind of computerized video game."

No, it's a great series on HBO based on the book series "A Song of Fire and Ice" by George Martin.
56 posted on 05/28/2013 11:09:20 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (t)
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To: stuartcr
Couldn’t do it. The previews were creepy enough. I remember when my parents used to watch him on tv. He was really good and quite a showman. Everyone knew he was gay, but no one made a big deal out of it like nowadays or pried into his personal life. I remember my mother talking about other screen stars that were gay, but again, no one made a big deal about them and didn’t delve into their private lives.

Agreed. I didn't see the previews, and while I don't get HBO, I won't attempt to see the show. I have some wonderful memories from when I was little of visiting my grandparents and watching his TV show. And incredible performer and showman, and such a talented pianist.

I seem to recall that he had an awful lot of personal "demons" and lived a rather unhappy life. I have no wish to see what caused his pain. Instead I prefer to remember him as he portrayed himself on his TV shows. Phylis Diller was said to be one of his closest friends and tried to help him as best she could.

Mark

57 posted on 05/28/2013 11:10:51 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: chris37

The character that plays Theon reminds me of a young Mick Jagger.


58 posted on 05/28/2013 11:10:53 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (t)
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To: JoeProBono

Sleezy content, but Oscar/emmy-worthy acting, especially by Douglas. Smartly staged and directed. BUT, wish it hadn’t been shared. However, it was not kind to the gay movement.

How about Debbie Reynolds as Liberace’s mom?! I forgot she was in it until I read the credits at the end.


59 posted on 05/28/2013 11:26:18 AM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Yep, I agree. I think Alfie Allen has done a great job playing Theon. That is one of the things a love about the TV series. The actors are so perfectly cast that it is just astonishing.

I would say that the actress I thought was the worst cast was the one who plays Shae. However, I have even warmed up to her. The fierceness that she brings to the role is great.

The actor that I really have begun to appreciate the most in one of the lesser characters is the one who plays Petyr Baelysh “Littlefinger”. He is so sinister, it just oozes from him.

And yes I do feel extremely badly for talking about something totally unrelated to this thread >_>


60 posted on 05/28/2013 11:26:57 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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